Dropbox Business: How Can the Team Space Root Directory Be Accessed?

When using Dropbox Business' team space, you are allowed to create a member folder inside of the team's space. This member folder appears as a purple icon and it will become your default root path (aka '/') when using the API.

If you have a member folder, the following steps can be used to access the Team Space's root folder instead:

Make a request to the /namespaces endpoint from DBBs API-Docs.

In the response you will see a namespace ID whose type is "team_folder". Save this ID.

Add the previous namespace ID under the "teamSpaceId" header in your request.

This will allow the Cloud Elements platform to differentiate between your member root folder and the team space folder.

What ID Can Be Used To Get The Root Folder of Documents Hub Elements?

We are in the process of normalizing the documents hub even further, but there are always a few unique API provider differences and the 'ID' used to make a GET by the root folder ID is one such difference.

Currently the following values can be used in these elements to make GET calls directly against the root folder by ID (for example, GET /folders/{id}/contents or GET /folders/{id}/metadata).